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  1. Path: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
  2. From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
  4. Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
  5. Date: 12 Apr 1996 13:34:16 -0700
  6. Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
  7. Message-ID: <4kmeo8INN4gd@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
  8. References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4kkbk7$hv8@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <4kkru5INN71j@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4km8el$3he@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
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  11. In article <4km8el$3he@nntp.Stanford.EDU>,
  12. Chuck Karish <karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
  13. >Neither POSIX.1-1990 nor FIPS 151-2 requires that a conforming
  14. >system support the POSIX.1 general terminal interface.  Windows
  15. >NT 3.51 does not do so.
  16.  
  17. Right. And the ANSI/ISO C standard doesn't require that a program that has more
  18. than one instance of an object that is 32K long be translated by a conforming
  19. implementation.
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